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Billy and 8undar.J0.JO i IJtlly only 25 Sunday only 1 mot. rooa. 1 yr. S0.M fL .73 1.00 IS .19 AUGUST CIIICULATION. Daily.

The number of complete and perfect coplea of The Washington Tlmei printed dally dur- 9 Int. ffcft month rtf Atitriiat wa na fnllnwa 1 54.399 2 52.571 II Sunday 22 55.05 24 E4.4SO 3 12,173 4 3.253 14 53,444 25 n.tnj 2t 55,223 27 Sunday 28 53.717 29 55,215 30 54.393 31 55,411 15 53,324 18 52.42 17 C2.442 54.563 Sunday 7 S3.2S 52.225 18 53,740 19 53.292 20 Sunday 53,203 T1 SJ.SM 22 54.181 Total for month 1.475.075 Dally a crate, for month 54.S3Z The net total circulation of The Washington Times (daily) during the month of August iwai 1,310,225, all copies left over and returned being- eliminated. This number, when divided by 27, the number of days of publication, shows the net dally average for August to have been 48.527. 'August. 1911, Includes 19,101 Rochester, N.

Y. wreck extras printed on August 25. Detecting these figures, the average dally net circulation for August Is to have been Sunday. The numoer of complete and perfect copies of The Washington Times printed Sundays during the month of August was as follows: August 6 45,467 August 20 0,47 August J3 4S.44S August 27. 48,162 Total for month 195,574 Sunday aerage for month 48,891 The net total circulation of The Washington Times (Sunday) during the month of August wa 190.110, all copies left oer and returned by agents being eliminated.

This number, when divided by 4, the number of Sundays during August, shows the net Sunday average, lor August to have been 45.02S. Entered nt the Postofflce at Washington. V. C. as second class matter.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1911. i Apropos of the convention, it is said that the hoboes are a superstitious people and bePeve in signs. Particularly, "Beware of the dog." Preparations are going forward rapidly and the Indications are that Labor Day will be more elaborate and Impressive than eer. The Georgetown playgrounds will be alive with those who attend the Labor Day celebrations tomorrow. The program is one which cannot fail to please.

School days have come for tho new members of the Army Medical Reserve who will have to get down to study even before the general run of school children. The hobo convention may not have developed anything strikingly novel -In the way of an uplift plan, but it has brought out some human interest touches which are better than a play. Now that- officers with the rank of jcolonel ate- to be detailed to the recruiting: stations perhaps there will be, a little more prestige In enlisting and the "array ranks will swell accordingly. Tie promotion of Charles Selden from telegraph superintendent to general Inspector of transportation of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, announced yesterday, is a reward for thirty-four years of faithful service. A Government employe has filed a petition to have his name changed to Luck or rather the Hungarian equivalent thereof.

Does he expect to find any greater number of people to believe in him, in this Incredulous age? Captain Oyster's plan to open schools for the "Little Mothers'' of the Capital deserves much commendation and hearty support. This plan has been worked out in other cities, and the results obtained are said to have been very successful. Flagg Council, United Commercial Travelers, has honored one of its hustling members. For his activity in promoting its interests. Senior Counselor H.

Jeter has been presented with a gold ring bearing the emblem ofthe order. Mayor Wltkowski. of Glen Echo, eidentlv feels that he has worn himself out licking the other fellows -and is ready to quit. The vaudeville shows expect an Increase in business when things quiet down in our turbulent suburb. It is a matter of regret that work has been discontinued on the TVash-lngton-Leesburg highway In the vicinity of Langley, and it Is hopcd the beneficiaries will come forward promptly with their quota of the cost so that the Wbrk'may be resumed'.

Ella Haydcn and Anna Wlllers, of "Washington, held their ground and captured a burglar apiece, and a -young woman over in Baltimore did the same The cunning of the average burglar have to Increase many fold to match, the growing courage oftbe young women of today. A motorist" truly says that while the iorn la the meet important accessory sJfB a automobile, it is ofttimes used Dm least. A uniform code of signals '-With 41Uk Vinrn Tulll i TOBt many accidents, and It Is up to th motoring fraternity to devise such w1 a code. Th YPaf-lAa whn nut It All o.fv ail utci Clio 'Knights of Columbus, feel that for once would like to be able to crow. In the meantime "Cy" Cummings was wortn the price of admission, "and tho treasuries of St.

Vincent's and the German Orphan asylums acknowledge a increase. Miss Helena M. O'Connell, who is in cnarge or the ballinger playgrounds, has made a unique plea. She wants material to work on. not with.

"The Galllnger playgrounds need more children, not more money," she asserts. HIs O'Connell has been in charge of the grounds since July and has been successful. The death of Mrs. Catherine G. Hhecm.

at the age of eighty-five, removes one of the oldest and most prominent residents of the District. "6he was born In Germany and came of long lived family. She had watched the growth of Washington almost from a Tillage and was full of interesting reminiscences of the early days of the Capital. John a Confederate soldier, living on the Virginia side of the river, has prepared his own grave and Is confident that this Is the day appointed for his death. Dr.

"Wiley could point out that a good many people are preparing their own grave, by the stuff they put in their system, but they are not so sure as to the day and hour of death. The Government Printing Office Is keeping abreast of the times by replacing Its horses and wagons with electric automobile trucks. The contract Just awarded by Public Printer Connelly, for furnishing the world'a greatest printing office with six electric machines for use in Its delivery service, lit a big step forward in solving the delivery problem in large cities. SEEKING THE TRUTH ABOUT MARTIN. Overlooking the Virginia campaign from a Washington point of view, the most decided impression is of pity for people who may sincerely want to know the merits of the contest, lost In the maze of conflicting testimony.

Senator Martin, confronted by the publicity of a mass of letters that would damn a public man in almost any State in the Union, and that would do it in Virginia if the power of the old office-holding machines were not so effectively supplemented by a conspiracy of silence, has been shouting "Stop at the top of his voice; rolling his efesvto heaven, pro claiming that such outrageous charges ought to be ignored; hurling reams of balderdash about the "honor" of the noble old State being assailed by his opponent. Every revelation" of his own du plicity in dealing with the railroads and other special interests while he was a public servant, has been met with a new gush of this scjt of denial that denies nothing. The evidence which Representative Jones has produced in the last two or three days would not be needed in Washington, where Mr. Martin's record as a thick-and-thin supporter of the railroads has become so fiotorious that nobody asks proof. But in Virginia they seem not to have much illumination on these points, and they demand the most detailed proof.

Apparently, nothing short of testimony which will force a confession from Martin, will be satisfactory to a large share of the people. That testimony Jones has at last produced. At Petersburg on Tuesday evening last Mr. Jones read and exhibited three letters, in Senator Martin's own handwriting, written to William A. Glasgow, of Philadelphia, general counsel for the Norfolk and Western railroad.

The most important of those was quite lengthy, an insistent appeal to the railroad company to contribute to the Virginia campaign of that year. It warned Glasgow that Representative "Hal" Flood then running for the State senate was hard pressed; that the railroads had "always been able to rely on'' Flood; that Flood had incurred much unpopularity because of this firm 'friendship for the railroads; and that unless the railroads now stood by him in substantial manner, he, and various other legislative candidates, who, like him, had been devoted friends to the railroads, were likely to be defeated and an extremist legislature to be elected. The special significance of this letter is not merely that Martin was begging for railroad money; that sort of thing does not seem to discredit a public man much in Virginia. But er.rly in the present campaign Martin gave his word that from his election to the Senate he never had anything to do with the railroads, never solicited them for money, and held himself entirely independent of them. Thus the Glasgow letter as well as many others equally significant, which Jones has read shows Martin not merely as a Senatorial go-between, holding up the railroads for money, but as having given his word to the State and then had that word proved worthless.

They don't much like that kind of thing in Virginia. Forced to admit these letters, Mar-1 tin explains very limply that he exhausted all his resources to get money from, the railroads, in order to "save the State's supremacy to the white race." That is always a good explanation in Virginia; anything, seemingly, can be palliated if the explanation be made that it had to be done in order to prevent negro domination. The trouble is that the Glasgow letters prove another motive. Martin asked for money to save, not WHITE SUPREMACY, but RAILROAD SU PREMACY. The "white supremacy" business was buncombe; the same sort of goods as the old "bloody shirt" business that, used to go in the North.

The fact is, if Virginia wants to know, that Martin has never deviated from a consistent course of supporting railroad interests since he has been in Washington. Nobody at the Senate wing of the Capitoi has ventured an uncertainty on that point since he has been a Senator. There is not another Democratic Senator so notoriously a railroad man as he; not one. There are a few who vote just as often for the railroad side as he, but none is so well.Jjnown as a worker, a booster, a middleman for the railroad influence in the Senate as Martin. The case which Jones has -presented would be ample to defeat a Senator in almost any State in the Union.

If it doesn't beat Martin it will be the proof that buncombe -and balderdash and. tommyrot are more potent in the State that boasted itself thevery home of American -statesmanship, than any other form of. appeal. Degraded from Jefferson to Martin, Virginia ought to look- itself in tho face, put on the sackclothVand, taking a stout club in hand, itself on next Thursday by cleaning out the rotten old machine that makes the State a byword among communities tha know what decent politics is. THE SMILE AS A ASSET.

BUSINESS The Mail Bag department of The Times, which is in large measure a mirror of the life of the city, has" recently printed two letters calling attention to the courtesy and geniality of young women in the business world. One was a waitress in a restaurant, who brightened her service with a smile which was like a tonic. The other was a saleswoman in a department store, who greeted a belated customer, near the closing hour, as warmly as if the day's business had but begun. In each instance the customer went away with a kindlier regard for humanity and a sense of gratitude which claimed public acknowledgment. We hope and do not doubt that these expressions of appreciation came under the eye of the sunny natured young women who scattered these seeds of kindness, little knowing whether they would fall upon fertile or barren ground.

Still more earnestly is it hoped that they fell under the eye of others who have not always succeeded in shaking off the irritating vexations of a busy day. It is not necessary to enter into any examina tion as to how generally this gentle i spirit of courtesy prevails. It is enough to know that any business institution may well count it among its most valuable assets. The great railroad corporations discovered this long ago, and put their employes through a regular course of instruction in cour tesy toward patrons. Like honesty, it is the best policy, but on the broader ground of humanity it is one of those delicate little touches which make life worth living.

On mercurial minds -it can make or mar the happiness of a day and perhaps change the whole current of a lifetime. The proverb has it that "evil is wrought by want of thought," and so it is. Almost unconsciously the petty annoyances under which we are labor ing find expression and pass along the contagion of gloom. A little more thoughtfulness would just as easily start an ever-widening circle of optimism and goofj "cheer. All of which may be borne in mind by those who stand before the counter as well as behind it.

It would increase the sum of happiness and make the world better and brighter for us all. WHITE AND BROWN BREAD ISSUE OFFICIALLY PASSED ON. Probably no question concerning nutrition jn food nas caused more controversy than that over the comparative value of wheaien breads. There are those who maintain that unless one eats flour made out of the whole grain he is stuffing himself with something that builds neither brain, brawn, nor bone. Others contend just as stoutly that the digestive organs can't take care of the husk of the wheat, and to use it in flour is to rob bread of an appearance that prompts, the appetite and imposes on the digestive organs a tax they should not undertake.

An elaborate report has been made in London to the local government board on this much-disputed question, and, if this report is worth while, it certainly cannot be maintained that the man who eats white bread because he likes it and who obstinately declines to worry about what is happening to his innards has anything to regret. The gist of the report is that the -scientists don't know. They are un able to tell how much of the nutriment in wheat the body can assimilate. Since different varieties of wheat differ greatly in nutritive value, it is plain that one white bread may have more nutriment than some whole wheat bread apd less than' others. The only way to tell is to analyze-ach specimen and make comparison.1 Even then it would remain to -decide as to the amount of nutriment that would be assimilated.

As this is an impossible process, persons who let taste and inclination settle the matter for them have by far the best of it. This is more true in view of the conclusion of the commeut on the report, which1 is: Thv consumer cannot select his wheats, he cannot supervise the production of the flour offered to him, and, in fact, whether he white bread or brown, he hasJust to take his chance. But he has one great consolation. It is, that, unless he lives wholly upon bread, which he ought not to do, the differences between one bread and another do not really matter very much. In fact, after much science we come back to the rule of common sense to vary the." diet, take what pains we can.

to get -it" good, and trust for the rest to nature, whose resources are very far from being comprehended even by the local government board. Thus we wind, -up exactly' where waj began on the bread question, with fairly "good reason to follow the example of the estimable Mrs. Gamp and do exactly as one feels "disposed." Knights and Ladies Who Participated in Virginia Tilting Tournament HaWSalaaaHlaaF aaaFaaMaaaaiaU. UliaHIV. 8 aaaaaaaaaiHaal iaftiaB3E2aafc9laKafrsKar -jaaBWaaaaWsaiaaaaaMaLxJg HBt iflfs aT XaMECC cK 'fc, ff aaFflK f9aaalE3ata9aB aL -frjV -Jjlic fV.

aaaaaaaaaaaH ft In the Upper Right Hand Picture J. S. Blandford, of Washington, Is Shown Riding to Victory. On the Left, Reading From Left to Right, Are tne Victors Among the Men Mr. Blandford, A.

D. Langley, of Washington; Guy Rogers, of Lewinsville, and H. D. Hurst, of Langley, Fairfax County. The Bottom Picture Is That of the Ladies of the Tournament, From Left to Right Miss Thompson, of Locust View; Miss Row, of Falls Church; Miss Bridges, of Barcroft, and Miss OLDEST RESIDENT IS- Mrs.

Amanda G. Thomas Celebrating Anniversary of Birth Today. Mrs. Amanda Gertrude Thomas, oldest resident of Takoma Park, who lives in the first house completed in that suburb. Is celebrating the seventy-eighth anni versary of her birth at her home today.

On September 15 she expect! to go on a visit to her daughter, who lives In Nevada, and when she leaves the surviving members of the "Deestrick Skule," In which amateur" pioduction Mrs. Thomas played a part hen the neighborhood produced the play eome years ago, will give ner a- farewell luncheon and tokens of remembrance. Mrs. Thomas' daughter, Mrs. Augusta Wilson Long, lives in Nevada, where her husband Is a mining man.

The greatest natural brldgo In the world was discovered by Mr. Long. The bridge i In San Juan county, Utah, and In 190S President officially proclaimed that the bridge should be failed tha "Mighty In nonor of Mrs. Long. When Mrs.

Thomas, with husband, who was prominent in the "leg cabin" politics of Takoma Park during the Benjamin Harrison campaign, and who died on'-the day President Harrison was inaugurated, moved to Takoma Park in 1S83, the region round about was a wilderness, and forest flres were common. Mrs. Thomas" recalls that uin several occasions she, with other women of the village, sallied forth to fight the, fire, armed with axes and wet blankets. At that time there was but one road in Takoma. Park, the old turnpike, since named Carroll "avenue, hpori fthlcTi stands the old log cabin of the Harrison campaign.

A member of the Wilson family, pne of in New Jersey, Mrs. Thomas traces her ancestry back to the earliest "settlements in that colony. A large tract of land received by her great-grandfather Wilson ftom King George III of England as a reward for bravery and wounds received at the battle ofr Fort Tlconderoga in the French and Indian war. is still the home of the Wilsons, in Sussex county. N.

J. Mrs. Thomas, wrhose memory remains remarkably talKs familiarly of the days before railroads, and of the times when slaves were held In New Jeisey. Although Thomas is the last other Immediate family, several oi her relatives are jiearlng the century mark. i Weir known and we.U belovedby tire residents of Takoma Park, 'who call her "grandmother," THrs.

Thomas takes a prominent part In the-community, OF MOi SEYENTYflGHT if, Payne, of Rock Springs. TOURNEY RECALLS LONG DEAD DAYS Fairfax County Jousts Bring Out Lovliness and Chivalry of Old Virginia District Knight Wins. It was a gala by over In old and historic Fairfax county yesterday, when Its beauty and chivalry, met at Flva Oaks, and there held a gay tourney, where the deeds of the doughty knight, bloodless, though none the less bold, swept the beholder back to the days of lvanhoe and the Joustlngs of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table. Thereupon the estate of Colonel Huntington, on the fringe of a picturesque grove, from whose deep recesses, one might well expect to hear the" winding notes of the bugle of Robin Hood, the gallant swalrisof the county. astride their caracoling steeds, strove In the lists for" that greatest of all prizes, the smiles of their ladles fair, while trie stout yeomanry, young and old, cheered-on the contestants to deeds of greater prowess.

Full 500 of the 'Best of Fairfax's citi zens gathered at Five excel whose delights as a tourneying ground the gods of love and war might In vain search hand-ln-hand for a season. Beside the classic grove. In whose cool and bowery depths youths and maidens ever In pairs strolled, deeply engaged la that blissful contest that has been waged from the time Eve ate apples to yesterday's Rockvtlle elopement, theie ran the tournament course. It was about yards long. There were three posts, set fifty yards apart, and from each a etoss-bar reached Its long arm out over the course.

From the end of each bar depended an Iron rod. at the una of whicn a metal ring, wound with white cloth to make It clearer to the bight of the rider, was delicately poised. The Sport The as may not be commonly known, Is- for the gallant rider, spurring his horse into a gallop, to transfix In succession the three pendunt rings upon tho' point of an iron-shod lance, which, like the knlghs ofolci, he 'carried In his right hand. Each knight has nine tilts at these diminutive targets. As the ring is only aaout an inch In 'diameter and tho knight's hoise must.

under the rules, shoot through the lists at a gallop, the art required to make a bull's-eye, as It Were, upon 'the whole nine rings must exnimi no mean skiu in horsemanship. The heralds. Mr. John M. Newlono, of Vienna, and Wi'llam H.

Maffett, of the same town, then brayed forth through their trumpets Che summons' of tn brave kr.ights to the lists. And forthwith there rode forth more than a score of the- chivalry of Fairfax. As was the custom In the olden days, foreign knights to Jourthe'sparts, and, taking advantage of this Courtesy, aeevral gallant sirs from the District of Columbia rode up and took their places iiuiuiis me rsinax Knignis. In the Judges' stand stood John R. Stewart.

cf Lewinsville; Thomas nance, or Vienna, and Charles Broad water, of Fairfax Court House, ready to pass judgment upon the daring and skiu oi me anignts. imngmg the shady grove were a hundrtd or moro vehicles, embracing everything from tho automobile to the donkey cart 6f Ireland, making collectively a moat comfortable. If not an Imposing grandstand. Seatl theerln were the maid ens of Fairfax and had a stranger pome unawares upon the scene he might eSslly have mistaken the occasion not for a tournament, but for a beauty show and one where every vcuntestant was rightfully entitled to first prize! Enter Lists. At 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, at a signal from the herald, the swains entered -upon their contest, and knight after knight was roundly cheered by the on-lookers as he spurred his good steed over the course time after time, never failing to lace the sought-for ring upon the point of his trusty lance.

All of the riding was good, most of It was excellent, and some of It of a quality beyond all praise. As the afternoon wore on the contest waxed hot, and finally narrowed down to a contest between J. S. Blandford and A. D.

Langley, of Washington, stranger knights: Guy, sur-named "Jack," Rogers, of Lewinsville, and H. Hurst, of Langley, Fairfax county. Alas for the knights of the home soil, for In the end the strange-- knights triumphed. S- Blandford, of Washington, was adjudged the most successful competitor, havjng stabbed with his doughty lance fourteen out of a possible fifteen rings. Close upon his heels trod A.

P. Langley, also of Washington, nho succeeded in lacing thirteen out of fifteen of the coveted rings. "4 Then came Guy Rogers, he who Is sur-named "Jack" upon the rolls of chivalry, who had successfully negotiated an even dozen little circles, and last among th- list of victors came" Sir Knight H. D. Hurst, who had managed to spear eleven with his good lance.

These. riders were In supcriop calaa cs It were. Previous to their skilled riding a score of youths had glvon a very pretty exhibition In tourneying, much to the delight of the onlookers. Cavalry Band" Gives Concert at Fort Myer A guard mount and sacred concert was given at Fort Myer this morning by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band. The program wa? under tho direction of G.

F. Tyrrell, nnd a feature was the playing of a march from a manuscript just furnished by. the' director. BHT MIL STRIKE KERN LIS like WEEK Only Diplomacy Will Pre vent Walkout on the Har- riman Roads. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, CaL, Sept.

3. Un less the differences between the official of Harriman system of railroads west of Chicago and the thousands of employes are handled In a diplomatic manner. It Is likely that a strike of tha railroad men will be called this week. For several days officials of the unions whose men will be affected have endeavored to reach an agreement with Julius Kruttschmttt, director cf maintew nance and way of the Harriman railroads. Thus far they have failed, Kruttschmltt now Is on his way bacK to Chicago after an extended confer ence with the union men.

No settlement was reached. The question of whether the thou-' sands of men employed by the Harriman! system west of Chicago go on a strike, now that Kruttschmltt has thrown down the gauntlet. Is being asked by union men throughout th West. The matter will hang Are until next Friday when the union officials will hold a final meetlnz. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, Is en route to San Francisco, and wllJL be present at the meeting.

Mr. Gompera favors peace, and will do everything possible to avert a strike. Five presidents of International unions, which constitute a federation now are in San Francisco, and others are expected today and tomorow. Kruttschmltt con ferred with these officials for several days. The men Insisted that the railroads recognize the federation.

Last night Kruttschmltt Informed the men that he was unable to accede to their demands. "I will not surrender the direction oS railroad' affairs to an irresponsible committee." Kruttschmltt said. He boardJ ed his private 'car and left immediately, for Chicago. It looked very much last night as lfi a strike would be called Immediately, but the cooler heads gained control or the meeting. J.

W. KUne, president of; the' International Blacksmiths' Union, Issued a statement this mornlna In which be said that a general strike will depend -upon the results of the conferH ence to be held Friday. i Chicago Postal Record. CHICAGO, Sept. hundred and twenty-two tons of mall, excluding) first-class matter, passed through thei Chicago poscofflce August 26.

This Is thought to be the largest amount oC mall ever handled by a postofflce la single- day. i ft 4 it lAtit. -i "ivK -1 if -rJ "art -jti -TT Z..